Development of a Tool for an Integrated Approach to Land Impacts from Military Training.

White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is undergoing a transformation.  New demands placed on the landscape are sure to include more numerous wheeled and tracked vehicles, new operational testing exercises, and other novel land uses.  The Army’s Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) in conjunction with WSMR developed a tool to assess potential land impacts from training and other land uses.  This poster will document the approach taken on the tool created to combine disparate, spatially explicit, data resources in an integrated manner.  The tool is meant to be used by land use and operational planners in need of an effective way to access and analyze data as a part of the decision making process.  The tool is based on a Microsoft Excel platform and has been designed in such a way that the user dictates how deep they delve into the underlying data.  We present results in a streamlined manner while allowing the user to “drill down” to increasingly intricate levels in order to explore the logic and data behind the results.